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Nokia N78 new pics

I personally like the handset’s body. Flat. Slim. It’s easy to hold or keep it in our pocket. Above all, the most-sophisticated feature this phone can do is its ability to create geo-tagging for pictures taken by its camera. When you took a picture, then its GPS capability will add some geo-tagging informations to this photo [...]

Philips 198 and 199 heading to Asia, Europe

Mobile phone makers are still competing to win the low end phones market. Asia is one of the emerging market for this sector. Philips announces a new low-end handset that have very basic features, measuring 99 x 42 x 13.5 mm and weighing only 65 grams. This company offers two variations of this entry phone. The [...]

Hop-On unveils $10 mobile phone — with no monitor!

The idea behind this is quite simple. When you are travelling, sometimes you need a back-up phone or desiring something simpler. Moreover, if you need to use your mobile phone only to talk, you can buy this phone: very cheap and easy to use. You can simply buy local SIM card and simply use [...]

Japan’s NTT DoCoMo introduces new logo

NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries unveiled their new corp. logo and other re-branding elements that will be introduced beginning July 1. According to the company, the changes are based on the DoCoMo’s review after establishing the Corporate Branding Division in August 2007. The company name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase, “Do Communications Over the [...]

Mobile music sales in Japan up 91%

I think J-pop (Japanese pop) has frequently enjoyed in mobile phones in Japan since the mobile devices are becoming more popular in the country. According to the latest statistics: Total music sales for 2007 in Japan came to JPY 466 billion (US $4.66 billion). While CD/DVD sales declined 4% from the previous year, digital downloads jumped up [...]

3GToday.com site closed

When I searched about 3G technology this morning, I found that one of my favorite sites, 3GToday.com has been closed. This is the only message on the site: Thank you for visiting 3G Today. As 3G mobile technology is now a well established global reality with more than 550 million subscribers worldwide at the end of [...]

Vietnam launches its first satellite

Vietnam has taken a major step into the space age with the launch of its first satellite to provide telecommunications, broadcasting and Internet links across the country throughout the country. Vinasat-1 was carried into space aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the European spaceport in French Guiana at 7:17pm local time (10:17pm GMT) Friday evening. Ariane [...]

Huawei signs MoU with Iranian telco

Telecommunication Company of Iran (TCI) and China’s Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. have been signed a memorandum of understanding on training cooperation. Based-in Shenzen, China, Huawei is now becoming more and more internationalized. Their products and solutions are deployed in over 100 countries and serve over one billion users worldwide. According to head of TCI, Saber Feyzi, [...]

Taiwan’s 3G users to reach 10 million by year end

Here some important highlights on Taiwan’s telecommununications industry issued by Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry: 3G subscriptions reached 6.91 million at the end of 2007. 2G subscriptions fell by 4.2 % to 15.9 million. Subscriptions will top 10 million by the end of this year. Text messaging volumes rose by 26% to 1,256 billion in the fourth quarter of [...]

Social networking goes to the cellphone

As the the world’s subscribers reached 3.3 billion cellphone users now, no wonder the Internet companies move their products and services to the cellphone, including social networking services.


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